2024-02-10 11:41:07
The National Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports:
“As a result of laboratory research within the framework of spot epidemiological observation, a pathogen of Influenza type B was found in Armenia.
Common flu symptoms include:
fever, feeling of being broken, chills, shivering and sweating, headache, dry cough,
shortness of breath, fatigue and weakness, runny nose (smoker)
sore throat and scratchy feeling,
pain in the eyeballs, photophobia and lacrimation, vomiting and diarrhea, which is more common in children.
Complications are secondary infections, such as: secondary pneumonia, bronchitis, thrush, sinusitis, laryngitis, ear infection.
Among the primary complications caused by influenza virus, primary pneumonia, viral myocarditis, meningitis, encephalitis, meningoencephalitis, myelitis, renal failure, etc. are particularly dangerous. Pregnant women can develop acute respiratory failure as a complication of the most life-threatening flu.
In order not to get sick with acute respiratory infections and flu, as well as to avoid complications, we remind and urge you again:
get vaccinated against seasonal flu by contacting a polyclinic/outpatient clinic, the flu vaccine currently available in the country protects against two subtypes of influenza A and two B,
avoid contact with patients with symptoms typical of acute respiratory infections,
if you are sick, stay at home, especially do not allow children with symptoms typical of acute respiratory infections to attend school and kindergarten, ensuring consultation and treatment by a doctor;
if you are sick, call your local pediatrician, therapist or family doctor and do not self-medicate.
Do not use antibiotics, as they are not indicated for the treatment of flu and acute respiratory infections.
dress for the weather
observe cough and sneeze etiquette
drink as much fluids as possible
frequently ventilate closed spaces,
follow personal hygiene”.